Babylon 5 Claweagle Direct Assault Frigate

Name: Claweagle
Craft: Drazi Freehold Claweagle Direct Assault Frigate
Type: Direct Assault Frigate
Scale: Capital
Length: 150 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 22; Skeleton: 2/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+1
Passengers: 10
Cargo Capacity: 20 metric tons
Consumables: 3 months
Maneuverability: 3D
Space: 9
Hull: 2D
Sensors

• Passive: 20 / 0D+2
• Scan: 40 / 1D+1
• Search: 60 / 1D+2
• Focus: 2 / 2D+1

Weapons

• 2 Particle Beams

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage: 3D

• 2 Grapples

Fire Arc: forward
Crew:1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Range: 50 meters
Strength: 3D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: 22

• Officers: 1
• Pilots: 3
• Sensor Operators: 3
• Crewmen: 15

• Average Crew Experience Level: Drazi Line
• Stealth: 10 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Assault Fusion Engine

Complement:

• Light Shuttle: 1

Description: Possibly the most daring, unique, and possibly foolishly designed vessel in the entire Drazi armada, the Claweagle is a small frigate designed to literally attach itself to an enemy ship of larger size in order to slow it down and blast away at the hull with its weapons array. Dreamed up when research scientists overheard off duty Or’fa complaining about the lack of maneuverability when having to lug around breaching pods (but also of the pleasure of dealing with the marines inside), the Claweagle project took shape.

Using a pair of specially fitted ‘assault grapples’ that magnetically and physically clamp down onto an enemy’s hull, the Claweagle can quickly become an annoying tumor to any larger ship. Hopefully making the ship clumsy enough to damage itself trying to deal with the extra weight while firing particle beams directly into the hull of the enemy, the Claweagle is surprisingly effective but is always a dangerous assignment for its crew, as such a small ship must get in close to perform such a duty.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 117-118)
• thedemonapostle